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Version date: 1 December 2001 - onwards
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Article 195 Restrictions on powers of building societies

(1) Section 9A of the Building Societies Act 1986 [Section 9A was inserted by the Building Societies Act 1997, section 10 and amended by S.I. 2001/1826 and S.I. 2001/2617.] (restrictions on certain transactions) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (5) -

(a) for paragraphs (a) and (b) substitute -

"(a) as a person who has permission under Part IV of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to effect or carry out contracts of long-term insurance, or

(b) an EEA firm of the kind mentioned in paragraph 5(d) of Schedule 3 to that Act, which has permission under paragraph 15 of that Schedule (as a result of qualifying for authorisation under paragraph 12 of that Schedule) to effect or carry out contracts of long-term insurance.";

(b) the words after paragraph (b) to the end are repealed.

(3) In subsection (9) -

(a) in the definition of "collective investment scheme" for the words "Financial Services Act 1986" substitute "Financial Services and Markets Act 2000";

(b) for the definition of "derivative investment" substitute -

""derivative investment" means an investment of the following kinds -